GPX Finds a Flake of Gold! Possible Trade Bead, Buttons and KG

[Ahab8]

I bought a GPX a month or so ago. I haven't used it a whole lot but have taken it out twice in the last few days. I bought it to hunt the sites thatI have hunted quiet with my T2 just to see if I was missing anything way down deep. I took it to a site that I hunted with my T2 with the 5", 11", and 15" coil. This is a very small area of finds and I hunted this spot until There was just no signals left except for a bit of iron. First good target was a very deep copper. Then I found a couple buttons. One of them was a tombac that was easily 16" and clear as can be. After I dug some massive craters I swung the T2 in them and pulled a button out of the iron. The GPX does not like iron....thats a fact!!!!





If anybody knows what the iron pick item is I would appreciate the id.
Ok now for todays hunt and the very tiny very unexpected finds. I took the GPX to a super early site and decided to hunt the salt water shore where I believe there was a stone wharf. This machine is incredible in the salt water shore. There was no modern targets at all at this spot. Unfortunately the tide drove me out and theres lots of long reeds on the higher areas so I couldn't detect there today. I will be returning for sure. I got a couple of the smallest keepers Ive ever dug in my life. This machine will find it if its there. No matter how small. Ive never found gold of any sort detecting. Today I found my first piece and it happens to be a tiny flake of gold. Pretty cool for the first piece.



Now for the other tiny little target. I'm hoping this may be a trade bead. This spot had lots of native and colonist interaction in the 1600s. It is metal as I found it and pinpointed it as well....but I have no idea what its made of. Any thoughts or opinions are welcome guys





The rest of the finds



Lead fishing weight?

 

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[TheGreatNorth]

Awesome finds! I've thought about hitting some of the northern rivers for gold flakes... that is more like a tiny nugget! I've been told a certain spot up north has gold in the streams...

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[nsdq]

Nice gold find

 

[Scrappy]

I don't know if that bead looks beautiful or your hands are really ugly! Lol. My guess as you know, would be a trade bead.

That gold is amazing. Considering where it came from, it was not there naturally, nor by accident. That nugget was being used for 17th C. trade. I'm so happy you're warming up to that GPX. I know that machine will produce some killer finds for many years. However, when I win the lotto, look out, I'm getting a GPZ! Lol

 

[JoeDirty]

I wish Louisiana had gold. To my knowledge it don't.

 

[Tradertom]

Great finds. The gold is surely a small nugget. I have never foun_d any gold in any form but rings or coines.

 

[AU Seeker]

Very nice haul from a place you have detected to where there were no signals left, the GPX will take it to the next level, or I should say a deeper level!!

Very Nice little picker/nugget!

I don't know if that bead looks beautiful or your hands are really ugly! Lol. My guess as you know, would be a trade bead.

That gold is amazing. Considering where it came from, it was not there naturally, nor by accident. That nugget was being used for 17th C. trade. I'm so happy you're warming up to that GPX. I know that machine will produce some killer finds for many years. However, when I win the lotto, look out, I'm getting a GPZ! Lol

Scrappy,

There is natural gold to be found in Maine, there have been many nice nuggets found in many of the streams in Maine not to mention fine gold, I know of at least 10 or more nuggets weighting in between 1/4 ounce and up to 1 ounce that have been found in Maine, but most of the bigger gold found is about the size of what Ahab8 has found, it wouldn't surprise me at all if he finds some other pickers there.

There's also gold to be found in the neighboring states of Vermont and New Hampshire.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Congratulations on your first gold picker with the GPX!!!!! You are now an Official "Nuggetshooter."

 

[Wildcat1750]

Nice looking gold flake and many other great finds as well!

 

[btjbtj]

Gold?!?! Abe--that's incredible! Congrats to the max. -Lisa & John

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the gold and other finds

 

[ScubaDetector]

How did you see those super small targets? Wow, good eyesight! Nice

 

[Aureus]

Very nice finds man! Never found any gold since I started detecting ,let alone a gold nugget! Great job!

 

[Ahab8]

Awesome finds! I've thought about hitting some of the northern rivers for gold flakes... that is more like a tiny nugget! I've been told a certain spot up north has gold in the streams...

I honestly never thought much about it until now. This machine is pretty amazing. That little piece and the trade bead came in loud and clear. The last thing I needed was something new to obsess about lol

 

[Scrappy]

Very nice haul from a place you have detected to where there were no signals left, the GPX will take it to the next level, or I should say a deeper level!!

Very Nice little picker/nugget!



Scrappy,

There is natural gold to be found in Maine, there have been many nice nuggets found in many of the streams in Maine not to mention fine gold, I know of at least 10 or more nuggets weighting in between 1/4 ounce and up to 1 ounce that have been found in Maine, but most of the bigger gold found is about the size of what Ahab8 has found, it wouldn't surprise me at all if he finds some other pickers there.

There's also gold to be found in the neighboring states of Vermont and New Hampshire.

Just to clarify - I understand gold exists in Maine, but having known exactly where this nugget came from, it's unlikely it got there naturally.

Great nugget again Abe!

 

[Carolina Tom]

Killer hunt Abe. I can hardly wait to see what that machine brings out of the already hunted sites.

Sure looks like an trade bead to me. We used to find them around here.

best of luck to you sir!

 

[OutdoorAdv]

So a gold pulse machine finds a gold nugget! I bet it sounded just like the mess of .22 lead bullets I dug up there with the GPX. I like that KG copper too man.

I have a similar iron piece that I've zapped and I have another that is not processed yet... somewhere in a bucket. I think its part to a harness or farm tool handle... definitely incorporating wood. This one is hand forged and yours looks hand made as well.

 

[Ahab8]

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Thanks Casper. Not a big fat ring but pretty cool to detect a little picker

 

[Ahab8]

Nice gold find

Thanks nsdq. Happy to have it